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Room 205 was a slow build up but a very solid ghost flick that delivered the scares and had decent but not overly bloody death scenes. Though it was dubbed I still think the acting was pretty decent from all and I have no complaints from this department. I thought the filming was good and created a creepy atmosphere and created suspense, job well done. I heard they were remaking this one but I think they should just do a sequel but that's just me. Overall this was a better than expected supernatural/horror movie that's sure to creep you out if you watch it alone with the lights off. Recommended!
A major problem with reviewing a movie is setting aside expectation. I agree with Mr. Disgusting about 80% of the time, but I feel that he was way off here with his 5 out of 10, saying that it is a bad ghost movie. That makes me wonder why he enjoyed The Ring remake (9 out of 10) which seemed to be written by a 12 year old with laughable acting accompanying the shoddy writing. Also, he says that the whole movie is summed up in 30 seconds… yeah, and so is every single Saw movie. He also calls it unoriginal, but praises House of 1000 Corpses… which means he obviously never saw the Texas Chainsaw Massacre since H1KCorpses and TCM have more similarities than most remakes have. Hopefully he just was really pissed off beforehand and needed to destroy something. No offense Mr. D!
I own almost 300 horror movies, so I have probably seen over1200... maybe more. When you see such a vast quantity, you begin to break down expectations and just let the movie take you where it is meant to take you. I don’t watch trailers or read reviews before a movie. I want to manifest an honest and untainted experience. That being said, I can understand why so many mixed reviews exist for Room 205. I completely enjoyed this movie. It ranks an A in being a B-movie. The casting was solid with personable characters that worked fairly well together and independently. The movie flows quite choppy, but it is not disconcerting. We are treated to a series of events that are forced together, but it works. I enjoy how unconventional it is because it feels new. Certainly this was unintentional, but really parallels the confusion of our main character, Katrine (Neel Ronholt).
There is a certain genuine sweetness between Katrine and Rolf (Mikkel Arendt) that adds some true depth into the characters to offset the colorful shells of the shallow characters (most characters can be summed up by one characteristic: the bitch, the jerk, etc). I love the fact that we have these shallow characters because it lets us concentrate solely on the character that does matter: Katrine.
Room 205 follows a similar path to many movies before it. It is a revenge driven ghost story much like The Ring and Shallow Ground. Imagine The Ring and replace Samara with the doppelgangers from The Abandoned. That is pretty much what Room 205 is.
It is not the greatest movie out there, but I would put it in the top of B-listed horror movies. It has some great visuals and probably the best eye gouging since Lucio Fulci’s Zombi. I never felt like I was just sitting through the movie. I rate movies for what they are and not what they could be. This is a solid B in my grade book. I am very happy that I bought this movie, and I feel that it belongs in my horror library next to other great B-movies like Shallow Ground, Dead Birds, and Tears of Kali.
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